Our Guidelines
Violet Lichen Books seeks to work with authors who have a strong attachment to the themes, people, or places they’re writing about, and who sling their dark tales straight from the heart. We are especially interested in works by marginalized and under-represented authors.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for atmospheric and thought-provoking novellas that intertwine a fascination of the natural world with horror and dread, and those that explore how we, as individual humans, interconnect with our communities, other species, and whole ecosystems.
We love weird fiction that unsettles, expands perspectives, and plays with bending reality, traditions, or tropes.
Response
Please allow at least 12 weeks for a response. After this, feel welcome to query!
What We’re Not Looking For
Slasher horror, shock horror, extreme horror. Classic monsters (Unless completely subverted in a new and weird way). High fantasy, sword and sorcery, superheroes space opera. YA or MG. Full-length novels. Short story collections. Reprints.
Word Count
Novellas of 20,000 to 40,000 words
Payment
Industry standard advance and royalties.
No AI
We are not interested in works written by AI in any form or at any stage. We work with human-made art only.
Our Wishlist
New Weird, Weird, folk horror, eco-horror, eco-science-fiction, surreal horror, body horror, literary SFFH.
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